He stated that whilst he did not set out to update the Manifesto for Agile Software Development , he believes that we are no longer just "uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it", rather we are doing lots of things with Agile and are focused on outcomes, so we are actually "uncovering better ways of getting awesome results".

He then took a deep dive into the each of the principles.

Making people awesome is about thinking about the entire ecosystem; not just users but evaluators, salespeople, managers and buyers.

In relation to making safety a prerequisite, he shared the results of the Google Project Aristotle study that showed that the number one attribute for a high performing team was psychological safety.

If you have a culture of fear none of your fancy practices or processes will help you.

Experiment and learn rapidly is about being able to "rigorously extract value from failure" and practising fast feedback cycles.

Deliver value continuously is about doing the impossible and delivering 50 times a day and making it safe to deploy. This includes moving from quality assurance to quality engineering, from sprints to continuous flow and from manual builds to continuous deployment.

Joshua then shared some case studies of Modern Agile including Osteria Francescana , Etsy (Three Armed Sweater Award and blameless retrospectives), Hunter (Mob Programming), Airbnb (deployment as part of onboarding and real time business metrics) and Amazon (Fire Phone failure).

He concluded by looking at the Agile Manifesto by humbly suggesting that Modern Agile be our new goal:

"Customer Collaboration over contract negotiation" be replaced by "Make People Awesome"